If the chamber were comprised of a majority of women, would it be the Senette?

I think that Coakley is still likely to win because of her huge party advantage going in, but becoming a laughingstock can do a lot of damage. People really don't want to vote for a joke, with Biden being the exception that proves the rule.

comparing a man running for vice president, who can't spell p-o-t-a-t-o...to someone missing a typo that was created by an outside marketing firm is rather weak to say the least.

(1) Quayle was already vice president at the time of the potatoe incident.

(2) Of course, Quayle knew how to spell potato. In the heat of the moment, he went with what on the card provided to him by, uhh, professional educators and bureaucrats of a long-time Democrat-controlled machine.

(3) The Coakley ad in question has an explicit credit line that reads: "APPROVED BY MARTHA COAKLEY." She doesn't even know how to spell the name of the state she wants to represent in the U.S. Senate?

Attorney General Martha Coakley has dedicated the last 20 years of her life to a career in public service. Coakley has a strong history as an advocate—not only for individuals and communities, but also for the best interests of the Commonwealth at large. Coakley brings to the Attorney General’s office a diverse and extensive legal background, a proven track record of bringing people to the table to find effective solutions to the issues that face the Commonwealth, and a strong commitment to her role as a public servant.

Jeremy: comparing a man running for vice president, who can't spell p-o-t-a-t-o...to someone missing a typo that was created by an outside marketing firm is rather weak to say the least. you're grasping at straws.

Actually it closer than you realize. Qualye was reading off cue cards for spelling lesson to a teachers class.

"Given that, for Martha Coakley's campaign to misspell the damned state's name is a huge embarrassment. It says they are either illiterate, or, what is much, much worse, Not From Around Here."

or maybe the marketing firm just made a mistake when typing the ad.

duh.

as for nomilk: "The Coakley ad in question has an explicit credit line that reads: "APPROVED BY MARTHA COAKLEY." She doesn't even know how to spell the name of the state she wants to represent in the U.S. Senate?"

she "approved" the content of the ad, but obviously did not see the typo...if she saw the disclaimer before it ran at all. (unless you think she and others running for office, including brown, are sitting in rooms reading and editing, opposed to traveling, giving speeches, interviews, and glad handing voters.)

i realize many here are rooting your little conservative hearts out for brown, but you're really pushing the wing nut envelope on something so petty as a typo in an ad.

and i also thought ann referring to senator kennedy as the "dead kennedy" a few days ago was classless.

jeremy has gone all e. e. cummingsbecausecapitalizing lettersonly benefits capitalism where community college is all aboutpicking flowers and random spellings of your home statea birdcage without any bird,a collar looking for a dog, a kiss without lips; a prayer lacking any knees

pogo - it is you, nit i, who appears to be obsessed. you post inane musings related to my being some kind of community college professor, and love to blather on, denigrating president obama on a regular basis.

since you're obviously a tea bagger and i just thought you'd enjoy experiencing what it's really all about.

Anyways, don't be ashamed. Your frequent mentioning of your desire to engage in a homosexual encounter is no shameful thing. I just don't happen to care for it, and hope you can find your man on another web site, perhaps a dating concern.

There's a UCLA component, too, maybe long gone, I dunno. We shouldn't pay trolls any attention.

Well, they are terrible trolls.

Speaking as someone who has been involved in the net probably longer than these dorks have been alive; when DOS was the standard; Windows or GUI platforms were Gate's wet dream; when we used punch cards and Fortan to program....I can respect a good troll.

It takes some skill to be a good troll: one who stealths under the radar for a while and then decides which way to bend/twist the conversation. Lulls you into thinking they are real and gradually you realize....Hey!!.. This guy is fucking with me. Good one.

These guys are just inept and basically an embarrassment to trolldom everywhere.

@DBQ, much as it pains me to point out your error, punch cards and Fortran compilers w-a-a-a-a-y precede DOS. Punch cards and Fortran were long gone back when CP/M was the standard operating system for microprocessors, which was well before quick-and-dirty-operating-system (QDOS, the direct ancestor of MS-DOS) saw the light of day.

Well, I wasn't actually sequential in my recollections. One did come before the other.

I was in college in the late 60's and again in the early/mid 70's. We used punch cards.. I recall being very irritated because one bad key stroke/punch would fuck up the entire batch and I'm a whiz at transposition.

I remember QDOS...sort of. I wasn't a programmer. Just a user of the technology beginning in the earliest days.

The issue is that some of us actually worked with computers and what we now call the net when there was nothing but a black or blue screen with typing on it.